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Letters Patent No. 102,549, dated May 3, 1870.

TOBACCO-ROLLER The Schedule referred to' n these Letters Patent andmaking part of the same.

To all whom fit may concern:

'Be it known that I, CHARLES AUGUSTUS J AoKSoN, of Petersburg, in thecounty of Dinwiddie and State of Virginia, have invented a new` andImproved Tobacca-Roller; and I do hereby declare that the folv lowing isa-fnll, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings making a part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a side elevation, and

Figure 2 is a detached view, showing the raised rim ofthe die-wheel, andshowing transverse sections of the recessed band.

This invention has vfor its object to roll tobacco in long strips andcut the same up into plugs, the marketable shape.

The invention consists of a wheel whose rim is provided with any desirednumber of circumferential flanges, said wheel'workiiig in connectionwith a belt whose inner surface is furnished with an equal number oflongitudinal grooves, linto which the tobacco is pressed by the flangesof the wheel, these two devices being combined with Scrapers that takethe strips of tobacco out of the grooves in the belt, and also with aknife, `operated by the wheel, that cuts the strips into plugs.

In the drawings- A is the frame-work of the machine.

B is the wheel, part of whose rim is taken np by the circumferentialanges b, while the remaining part is occupied by cogs which mesh withthe train of spurgears by which the wheel B is made to revolve.

B' is the fellow of the Wheel B, and is situated near lthe oppositeextremity of the frame A. Its function is to sustain, in connection withthe wheel B, the belt G, whose inner surface is furnished withlongitudinal grooves c, equal in number and width to the circumferentialflanges b, and as much deeper than the flanges as the thickness of theplugs to be manufactured should be.

Two smaller wheels, D and E, at a quadrants distance apart, press thebelt against the wheel B.

Tobacco inthe leaf is laid by the operator in the grooves c, on thelower part of the belt, between the two wheels, B B', and as soon as itreaches the wheel B it is compressed into the grooves by the operationofthe anges b and pressure-pulleys D E, and travels I half-way round thewheel before it is released. On

reaching the uppermost part of the wheel B, the tobacco strips meet thepoints of the Scrapers d, which lie close to the bottoms of the groovesc, take the strips out of the grooves, and direct them upon the apronsd', whose points lie close against the Surfaces of the flanges b. Theaprons d' conduct the strips to the horizontal table F. l

Standards G G rise from the frame A, one at each side of the wheel B, inwhich standards are supported the Scrapers al and aprons d', and also atransverse shaft e, from whose extremities project, over the table F,arms h h, bearing between them a transverse knife, It', and from whichprojects,toward-the wheel B and to one Side of it, an arm, i. Pins kproject from the side of the wheel B, at intervals equal to the lengthto be given to the plugs into which the strips are to be divided. AThepinssuccessively raise the arm fi, which movement depresses the knife h`and severs the strip. The plugs fall into a box placed beneath the edgeof the table F.

In other machines of this class the tobacco is coudncted t'o suitablygrooved and ribbed rollers', by means of an endless belt or carrier,but, on being delivered from the rollers, the strips adhere more or lessto the upper roller, and hence are rendered rough in appearance bytheends of the leaf being raised, over theirj whole surface. Thearrangement of the belt on the wheel B, in my machine, so as to travelin the same direction, completely obviaties this difficulty.

Having thus described my invention,-

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let.

ters Patent, is-

1. The tobacco-rolling machine herein described, in which the tobacco isplaced inside the belt O and pressed between the same and the Agroot'fedwheel B, as set forth.

2. The die-wheel, provided with the pins k, and

combined with thel shaft e, arms h t', and knife h', in

the manner described and for the purpose of cutting the strips intoplugs.

C. A. JACKSON.

VVitnesss:

GEO. L. SIMPSON, JAS. E. KEMP.

